Curtain and shade holder



C. J. DAVIS.

CURTAIN AND SHADE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. I0. 1921.

Patented Nov. 141, 1922 WITNESS INVENTOR CJ. Davis.

STATES CATHERINE JANE DAVIS, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

CURTAIN AND SHADE HOLDER.

Application filed Gctober 10, 1521.

T 0 all to 710m it may concern Be it known that l, CATHERINE JANE DAVIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and Eltate of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Curtain and Shade Holder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in curtain and shade holders in which a telescoping base is provided with a curtain and shade bracket on one side and with clamp ing jaws on the other side. i

The objects oi my invention are to turnish a mechanism which is strong and simple in construction; which can be quickly detached from one window and attached to another; and in which the shade bracket is capable of adjustment on the base.

Further objects and advantages are to be found in the construction and arrangement or parts as will be described hereinafter.

I attain these objects with the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. I is a plan View of the entire apparatus.

Fig. H is a front elevation of Fig. I.

Fig. H1 is an end elevation of 1, showing the curtain bracket.

Fig. IV is a cross section through Fig. l along the line Il -l V.

S milar numerals refer to similar parts tluolughout the several views.

'lhetelescoping base coi'lsists oi two tubes l. having their bent ends firmly comiected by a metal strip which may be designated as jaw plate 2. these tubes are the rods (or tubes) 3, which also have their bent ends connected by a jaw plate Al. By means of a threaded pipe in the jaw plate 2 and a corresponding thumb screw 6 in the jaw plate 4t, the awplates can be clamped to a window jamb 7 (dotted lines in Fi 1). The teeth 8 in both jaw plates prevent involuntary disengagement.

The curtain bracket 9 is bent of wire and rigidly afiixed to the rods 3. If the curtain pole 10 has a hole, as in Fig. I, the nose 11 on the curtain bracket can be used to good advantage.

The shade bracket 12 is a i'ectanogularly bent metal plate, mounted for slidable ad-.

justment on the tubes 1, and provided in one Telescoping-1y mounted in Serial No. 506,548.

leg with a bearing 13 for the pivotal pin of the shade roller 14. The other leg, which rests with its broad surface directly on the tubes 1, has a thumb screw 15 in the center, and vertically projecting straps 16 looping around the upper and lower tubes 1. The straps overlap each other at the back of the base, and are provided with screw holes for the thumb screw 15. 4

Loosening oil? the thumb s new permits the bracket to be shifted along the straight portion of the tubes, so that variations in the length of the shade roller can be taken care of.

Tightening of the thumb screw secures the bracket in place and imparts rigidity to the otherwise weak members constituting the base.

Having thus described my invention it will be seen that my objects have been accomplished, and though I have shown the preferred form of construction, I reserve to myself the right to make minor changes providing I do not violate the spirit and principle of my invention.

I claim:

In a curtain and shade holder, a telescoping base comprising two parallel tubes, two rods slidably mounted in the tubes, at ourtain bracket rigidly atlixed to the rods, a shade bracket slidab-ly attached to the tubes, the terminals of said tubes being; bent at right angles parallel to each other and opposite to the shade bracket, the terminals of said rods being bent at right angles parallel to each other and opposite to the curtain bracket, a jaw attached to the terminals oi said tubes, a jaw attached to the terminals of said rods, each jaw comprising a rectangular metal plate, the ends of said metal plate being rolled around the terminals of tubes and rods respectively and constituting a rigid support for said tubes and rods, teeth stamped from the metal plates near the edge farthest from the telescoping base, a threaded pipe sleeve having one end attached to the metal plate on the tubes, and a thumb screw passing through the metal plate on the rods and engaging the threads in said pipe sleeve.

Signed by me at Portland, Uregon, this 5th day of October, 1921.

CATHERINE JANE DAVIS. 

